Two things come to mind:
  1. Excel has its own concept of 'Working directory' - It won't find the file unless it is where Excel thinks it should be
  2. The infinite loop at the end is preventing OLE from shutting Excel down properly
For #1, convert the filename to its full path: 

use File::Spec;
my $excelfile = File::Spec->rel2abs($ARGV[0]);

[download]

Excel will be able to find and open the file. Take out the 'Quit' parameter to new and get rid of the while (1){}, and Excel will stay open so user can work with the spreadsheet.

As far as returning control to the perl script after the user is done with Excel, you are on your own ;) It will be difficult to tell when the user is done with the spreadsheet, especially if Excel is already open.

In reply to Re: Excel and OLE by jsprat
in thread Excel and OLE by Anonymous Monk

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